Our speakers
Rajat Sood, Principal, General Atlantic
Rajat Sood joined General Atlantic’s Mumbai office in 2007. He also worked in the firm’s New York office from 2009 to 2012 where he focused on investments in the Financial Services sector. Rajat played an active role in General Atlantic’s investments in IIFL Wealth & Asset Management, IndusInd Bank, National Stock Exchange, and PNB Housing Finance in India; Oak Hill Advisors and Pierpont Securities in North America; and Sura Asset Management and XP Investimentos in Latin America.
Prior to General Atlantic, Rajat worked at McKinsey & Company based in India, where he worked with clients in the financial services, retail, and health insurance sectors on a range of strategic and operational issues. Rajat earned his M.B.A from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta where he was a gold medalist, and his Bachelors of Technology in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Rajat Sood, Vice President, General Atlantic
Rajat Sood primarily focuses on investments in the Financial Services and technology sectors. He joined General Atlantic in 2007 and is currently based out of firm's Mumbai office after having worked in the New York office from 2009 to 2012. Rajat played an active role in General Atlantic’s investments in IndusInd Bank, Sura Asset Management, Oak Hill Advisors, Pierpont Securities and XP Investimentos.
Prior to GA, Rajat worked at McKinsey & Company, in their India office. While at McKinsey, he worked with clients in the financial services, retail and health insurance sectors on a range of strategic and operational issues.
Rajat is a gold medalist from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta where he earned his M.B.A. after graduating from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Rajat Tandon, Director - India Sales, Nokia Location & Commerce
As Sales Director, Rajat Tandon leads Sales & Business Development activities of Nokia, Location & Commerce in India. Rajat joined Nokia, Location & Commerce in November 2008. He brings with him approximately 18 years of telecom industry experience spanning across products and managed services and a client base covering Service Providers, Enterprises, SMBs and Partners.
Prior to joining Nokia, Location & Commerce, Rajat was with Nortel where he served on various roles for 13 years and was leading the customer relationship with one of India’s largest service providers. Before Nortel, he was with Siemens Ltd in Sales & Marketing where he was responsible for large strategic accounts like the Indian Railways.
Rajat holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics & telecommunication from University of Poona and Masters in Business Administration from IMT Ghaziabad.
Rajat Wahi, Partner, Management Consulting, Head, Consumer, Retail and Agri Sector, KPMG India
Rajeev Agrawal, Partner, Ambit Pragma
Rajeev Agrawal is the Partner at Ambit Pragma Ventures Pvt. Ltd. He is responsible for finance and corporate governance at the firm and focuses on healthcare and wellness. His domain experience includes healthcare, logistics, and education and has 13 years of experience across private equity and sales and marketing.
Ravjeev was a Founding Partner and Fund Manager at India Value Fund Advisors for seven years. Before that, Rajeev used to head the Telecom business in West India for 3Com, a global IT major. He was also the Regional Sales Head for Wipro, India's largest IT company. He had a short stint as a research engineer with BEL, India's largest defence electronics company.
Rajeev holds a Masters in Management Studies majoring in Marketing from University of Mumbai and B.Tech (Hons) with a Gold Medal in Electronics and Telecommunications from H.P. University.
Rajeev Agrawal, Founder & CEO, Innoviti
As CEO of Innoviti, Rajeev leads one of India’s most exciting financial technology companies in India that is using technology to reduce friction in delivery of many financial services. An engineer by profession, Rajeev believes in a strongly design centric technology approach that can solve problems conclusively.
Innoviti started its fintech business in 2008 and quickly established itself as a pioneer in solving real-world fintech problems.
The company has been a pioneer in the use of technology to add intelligence to payment transactions, helping merchants, banks and brands utilize the full power of digital payments to drive business growth. The company processes over 10B$ of offline merchant payments (~5% of India’s offline merchant payments volume as per RBI data), from over 1000+ cities with a volume throughput per installation that is 2X of the country’s average. Catamaran Ventures, SBI Capital, Bessemer Ventures and FMO are investors in the company. The company has several patents filed for with two awarded. Innoviti is the winner of Mastercard’s Innovation Wizards Award for its instant onboarding innovation, and Reliance’s Most Promising Growth Consumer Finance Award for its #KuchBhiOnEMI innovation in 2019. Innoviti is the only Indian payments SaaS company to be awarded the SOC3 seal of excellence for adherence to principles of trust in privacy, security, confidentiality, availability, and processing of transactions.
Prior to founding Innoviti, Rajeev was Vice President and Head of Broadband Communications Business at Sasken, Bangalore. He has done his B.Tech and Ph.D. from IIT, Bombay and is credited with the fastest Ph.D. in the history of IIT, Bombay.
Rajeev Ahuja, Executive Director, RBL Bank
Rajeev Ahuja is the Executive Director of RBL Bank and has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry.
He has been an integral part of the organisation's transformation journey and is responsible for building the overall strategy of the Bank while managing the Retail Banking and Financial Inclusion businesses of the Bank. He is also responsible for the Bank's capital raising, development of new businesses, partnerships and investor relations functions.
In the course of his career, Rajeev has held key positions in investment banking and financial markets. Prior to joining RBL Bank, he was heading the investor sales business (South Asia) with Citigroup, India. He also had a long stint in the capital markets and investment banking divisions of Deutsche Bank in Asia.
Rajeev holds a Master's in Business Administration from IIM, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Delhi. He attended St. Xavier's School in New Delhi
Rajeev Ahuja, Head - Strategy, Retail, Financial Inclusion and Transaction Banking, RBL Bank Ltd
Rajeev Ahuja, Head of Strategy, Retail Banking, Financial Inclusion & Transaction Banking at RBL Bank, brings over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has been an integral part of the company’s transformation journey and is responsible for building the overall strategy of the Bank while overlooking the Retail Banking, Transaction Banking and Financial Inclusion businesses of the Bank. He is also responsible for the company’s capital raising, development of new businesses, partnerships and investor relations functions.
In the course of his tenure in the banking industry, he has held key positions in investment banking and financial markets in India, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Prior to joining RBL Bank, Rajeev was Managing Director-Investor Sales Business (South Asia) with Citigroup, India. At Citibank, he worked with India-centric institutional investors, both domestic and foreign, on derivatives, structured products, loans and bonds. During this time, Rajeev established Citi's Fixed Income Capital Markets business with a broad product platform across INR and G3 bonds/loans, structured debt and mezzanine capital.
Rajeev has also had a 7 year stint as a Director in the capital markets and investment banking divisions of Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank in Singapore and Hong Kong. Additionally, he has held an advisory role with a venture capital fund focused on early-stage India-centric IT opportunities.
Rajeev holds a Masters in Business Administration from IIM, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Delhi. He attended St. Xavier’s School in New Delhi.
Rajeev Arora, CTO, FINO PayTech Limited
Rajeev Arora is Chief Technology Officer at FINO PayTech Limited. He is responsible for strategising and overseeing technology and the central operations.
He has over 19 years of experience in operations and banking. He began his career with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and prior to joining FINO PayTech, he was associated with ICICI Bank in Corporate Banking where he managed relationship with large corporates, specializing in the infrastructure sector. He has also managed relationship with various state and central governments extensively to work on various large e-Governance projects focused on government to citizen interaction and payments.
He has done a post-graduation in business administration (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering.
Rajeev Gambhir, Angel Investor & Independent Consultant,